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In this June 28, 2018 photo, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., joins activists at the Supreme Court as President Donald Trump prepares to choose a replacement for Justice Anthony Kennedy, in Washington.
There was much fanfare earlier this week over the Democrat primary election victory in New York's 14th Congressional District. The veteran, Rep. Joe Crowley, was the chairman of the Queens County Democrats and touted an impressive liberal record.
More than a month after the Ohio Senate primary, a group supporting Rep. Jim Renacci's finally revealed the money it spent. We still don't know its donors.
Saturday's protests will focus on the 'zero tolerance' policy that has resulted in the separation of more than 2,000 children from their parents. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to march in dozens of U.S. cities on Saturday to protest family separations carried out by the Trump administration, according to organizers.
Nearly 1,800 Puerto Ricans who survived Hurricane Maria will be forced to move out Sunday from hotels on the island and the US mainland, where they've lived rent-free on assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. "After 10 months of providing emergency shelter through Transitional Sheltering Assistance , FEMA is ending the program on June 30 for Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria survivors," the agency said in a statement.
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly has failed to build a strong team around President Donald Trump and, in fact, may not even like the commander in chief, former White House communications director Anthony "The Mooch" Scaramucci told Newsmax TV on Friday. "One of the legacies that John Kelly is going to have is that I don't know one person that he brought into the White House that he was able to recruit during his tenure as chief of staff," Scaramucci said on Newsmax's "America Talks Live."
President Donald Trump said Friday he plans to bring up Russian election meddling during his upcoming summit with Vladimir Putin, part of a wide-ranging list of topics that could include sanctions and the status of Crimea. Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that he planned to discuss Ukraine, Syria and Crimea as well as election interference when he meets with the Russian president in Helsinki, Finland, next month in a summit he said could help defuse tensions between Moscow and Washington.
On the issues of LGBTQ rights, abortion access, money in politics and the environment, no member of the federal judiciary has been more influential in the last 30 years than Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. The announcement earlier this week of Kennedy's retirement sent political shock waves through both parties, and scrambled an already uncertain 2018 midterm landscape, as both parties gear up for what are sure to be contentious and complicated confirmation hearings for President Donald Trump's pick to take Kennedy's place.
Hundreds of activists protest the Trump administration's approach to illegal border crossings and separation of children from immigrant parents, in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 28, 2018.
The tariffs are part of a tit for tat response to the Trump administration's duties on Canadian steel and aluminium. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government released the final list of items that will be targeted beginning on July 1. Some items will be subject to taxes of 10 or 25%.
Former Vice President Joe Biden stopped by a Cincinnati barber shop Friday , but he wasn't there to get a haircut. The outspoken Democrat shook hands, cracked jokes and talked about President Donald Trump the way a future presidential candidate might, even though he continued to play coy about whether he'll run in 2020.
President Donald Trump plans to interview candidates for the vacant Supreme Court seat this weekend in New Jersey, he told reporters aboard Air Force One on Friday. Trump said he would speak with one or two candidates, and plans to announce his selection on Monday, July 9. Speaking en route his golf property in Bedminster, New Jersey, Trump said he would not ask candidates their position on Roe v.
President Donald Trump will ultimately secure a hand-picked replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy but not before a political free-for-all among lawmakers on Capitol Hill, former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci told Newsmax TV on Friday. "My prediction is there will be a lot of rabblerousing, there'll be a lot of contention and screeching and on the Democratic side," Scaramucci said on "America Talks Live."
The National Security Agency is deleting more than 685 million call records the government obtained since 2015 from telecommunication companies in connection with investigations, raising questions about the viability of the program. The NSA's bulk collection of call records was initially curtailed by Congress after former NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked documents revealing extensive government surveillance.
Puerto Rican Republicans say new arrivals to Florida from the island are conservatives by nature and GOP leaders need to explain why the Puerto Ricans should vote for their candidates. Four Republican leaders from the island and Florida, including Puerto Rico's nonvoting member of the U.S. House and the speaker of the Puerto Rican House of Representatives, told a conference of Florida Republicans that new voters from the island are a natural fit for the party.
The House of Representatives has left town after once again failing to pass an immigration reform bill,, thus likely ensuring that nothing will be passed before the midterms.
Harlan Ellison, who had a reputation for being as cantankerous as he was a great writer, has died at the age of 84. Harlan Ellison, an incredibly prolific Science Fiction author who was also responsible for the most well-known episode of Star Trek during its original run, has died at the age of 84: Harlan Ellison, a furiously prolific and cantankerous writer whose science fiction and fantasy stories reflected a personality so intense that they often read as if he were punching his manual typewriter keys with his fists, died on Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 84. His wife, Susan Ellison, confirmed his death but said she did not know the cause.